Seasonal patterns in time–activity budgets of mallards in Eastern North America reveal partial evidence for differential behavioral allocations based on migration strategy: data and code

This repository contains the data and code used in the following publication: Seasonal patterns in time–activity budgets of mallards in Eastern North America reveal partial evidence for differential behavioral allocations based on migration strategy All analyses were completed using R. See manuscript for details about analyses. Please contact the corresponding author with questions about this data package. Data associated with this manuscript is summarized per season to protect the raw data. bandnum_index: 1019 unique individualssubstage_index: 8 substages used for analysis. 1 = early breeding, 2 = fall migration, 3 = late spring migration, 4 = prefall migration, 5 = prespring migration, 6 = spring migration, 7 = summer, 8 = winterstudy_year_index: years 2022-2025pop_index: migratory status. 1 = migratory, 2 = partial migrant, 3 = residenttotal_num_fixes: total number of behavioural fixes per individual per substagenum_fixes_fly: total number of flying fixes per individual per substagenum_fixes_preen: total number of preening fixes per individual per substagenum_fixes_feed: total number of feeding fixes per individual per substagenum_fixes_stationary: total number of stationary fixes per individual per substage